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The name Clearspring Technologies may not be terribly familiar to you, but chances are you’ve often clicked on or at least come across its AddThis buttons, which are plastered on publisher sites Web-wide. The U.S.-based social sharing platform company this morning announced that it has raised a whopping $20 million in a Series D round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners , with existing backers such as NEA and Novak Biddle Venture Partners participating.
AddThis Indeed: Clearspring Raises $20 Million As It Rides Social Sharing Boom
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Alexia Tsotsis works for TechCrunch as a writer. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles... → Learn MoreXydo
A new social network launched today around the sharing and engagement of news. XYDO takes the social graph and turns it into a network of news that is automatically curated through users Twitter and Facebook streams. Think Digg and Reddit , add social news feeds automatically and you have XYDO.
Podio Is Like A Yammer With Its Own App Store And App Builder
Like a souped up Yammer with its own App store attached, Danish online workspace Podio launches to the public today after two years of being in beta. In the same space as Box.net and 37Signals, Podio aims to be a complete work platform for enterprise — sort of like all inclusive web-based Intranet for companies. Founded by Anders Pollas, Jon Froda and Kasper Hultin, the Danish startup took up Tommy Ahlers (who is best known for selling ZYB to Vodafone in 2008) as a CEO and investor in August, all in all raking in $4.5M in funding .Look out Yammer – Podio emerges with full business social network
When Danish entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers sold his ‘social phonebook’ ZYB to Vodafone in 2008 for €31 million and joined the company, it didn’t seem like he would stay forever at such a slow-moving corporate entity. And sure enough he has now left. But ever the restless entrepreneur he’s decided against lying on a beach somewhere and careered headlong into a new startup which is poised to come out of stealth mode. Ahlers has now invested in, and become the CEO, of Podio , a hot new startup out of his home town of Copenhagen.
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Cheezburger , the internet publisher responsible for LOLcats , FAIL Blog , and other memes, has raised a whopping $30 million in new funding led by the Foundry Group with Madrona Venture Group , Avalon Ventures , and SoftBank Capital participating in the round.
I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes
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Mobile applications discovery and sharing service provider Appsfire has just launched a new product called AppTrends , which essentially delivers near real-time rankings of iPhone apps based on the chatter on Twitter .
Appsfire Introduces Live Rankings For iPhone Apps, Scores More Cash
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Shopkick Takes $15 Million From Greylock Partners – Reid Hoffman Loves This Company
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More Shopkick , a startup that’s focused on bridging the real world shopping experience with mobile, just closed a rather large $15 million round of funding from Greylock Partners . Partner Reid Hoffman , who is also an individual investor in the company, is already on the board of directors. The company had previously raised $5 million from Hoffman and Kleiner Perkins Kaufield & Byers .Diaspora
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